Four Day Work Week

Over the last two decades, American workers have been clocking more and more hours on the job, and they now work more hours than workers in any other industrialized country. Annual work hours are 4% higher than they were in 1980, amounting to an extra 1 hour and 30 minutes at work per week, on average (ILO 1999). Workers are also clocking more overtime hours. Almost one-third of the workforce regularly works more than the standard 40-hour week; one-fifth work more than 50 hours. The growth in overtime work, while helping to drive the healthy growth in output in the U.S., has unhealthy social costs. It is taking its toll not only on workers, but on their families, communities, and, ultimately in many cases, patients, customers, and

The overall logistics run much smoother in schools that have four day weeks compared to the five day week. “Some districts had experienced a decline in dropout rates, decreased disciplinary referrals, improved attendance, fewer class interruptions, more positive attitudes about school, and better staff development” (Yarbrough and Gilman 81). Another logistical benefit to having four day school week is that students have more time to get involved in extracurricular activities due to more availability

I think that the United States could go to the six hour work day. People in the past have done it and it was a huge success. During the Industrial Revolution people had to work 11-12 hours each day with little pay. Later on in the 1900s, Henry Ford changed the work hours for his employees and they showed great amounts of success. Ford doubled their pay and they did the work 2 times faster and more efficiently.

Would 4 day school weeks be good for students? Some schools have already started the 4 day schedule in smaller counties and they say that they have saved more money doing it than when they were on 5 day weeks. Teachers that work in the places that have four day school weeks claim that it is easier for them to because of instead of spending Saturday making lesson plans they now have Friday so they still have two days left in the weekend. Also students get more relax time with 3 day weekends so they come back Monday more productive. The 4 day schedule only adds 10 extra minutes to each class so students are not in school much longer than before. Some people think that it would not be good because some of the students who have special lunch because

The article states that the four day work with eighty percent salary is a good scheme for employee and the company and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that this is a bad idea and refutes each of the author’s reasons with explanation.

I propose that the average five day work week to be shortened down to four days. This bill will give people the rest and extra time that they need to function. A three day weekend is a reasonable amount of time people should be allowed to have to spend as they want. This bill will ensure that people will no longer overwork themselves.

Every hour that people work overtime, the productivity level goes down. People are going to be tired and sluggish if they work overtime and doesn’t give their body time off from all that stress and working. It could lead to depression and other health issues. People should be happy then everything will be more productive, live longer, and be a better American.

Eight-hour workdays will assure the productivity that the United States needs as a developed country. The reason why Henry Ford could reduce the working hour was becasue he invented the assembly line which increased the workers' efficiency significantly, and exceeded the consumer needs. However, although we have more advanced technology today, customer consumption is also increasing constantly. Therefore, we need to keep the productivity in order to maintain our status in the competivity global market. The reason why some European countries can have six-hour workday is part of because their territories are much smaller than that of the U.S.. So their citizens' needs are also smaller.

When considering the change from 5 to 4-day workweeks it is important to choose which path the department would like to pursue. The 32-hour 4-day workweek or the 4-day 10-hour workweek. By increasing the workday to 10 hours a day, there may be a need for more breaks within one day. This can be done and worked through, but will cause a problem if employee and employer don't agree.

By having flexible work schedules you are giving employees more control of their jobs. For example, nursing has gone from 8 hour shifts to 12 hour shifts. By working 3 twelve hour shifts a

Having worked as a full-time supervisor at my job has given me the experience and ability to observe the people I work with prefer shorter work days. As a result, I would schedule part time hours, five to six hour shifts, for my employees who not only wanted these shorter shifts, but would directly ask me to work shorter shifts. I have seen that when the employees work shorter days, they are pleased to be at work, focus better, and complete tasks in a timely manner. As opposed to when I had scheduled them for a regular eight hour day, they would dread the work day, spend their focus on counting down the hours until they could go home, and would bring with them a sluggish and negative mood which would hinder not only their experience at work, but would also resonate in their interactions with customers.

A six hour workday should become a standard in the United States because it increases productivity and it has been shown to work in other countries.

Is six-hour work days enough? On one side people want to decrease the work days to six hours to improve productivity. On the opposite side people want to keep the eight-hour work days because they don't believe six-hour days will work. I agree that six-hour work days wouldn't work out for a many reasons.

Participants whom felt the four day compressed work week was easier gave reasons of more efficient use of time during the week with Fridays being a day to get other needed activities done or having an extra day off. Participants whom felt it was harder gave reasons of more stress to perform more duties in less time, no extra time to assist students, students had an inability to focus for longer class periods, grading, the inability to determine how classes will progress each day made it harder to make

Changing the workday to six hours could be benefit the United States. Having a six hour workday could mean less time taking off. We would have time for doctors appointments, going to your children's school or running personal errands. If we do our best thinking late in the morning and late afternoon. Why wouldn't the United States want to try this. The United States has a high unemployment rate. This could help the United States. More people would want to work, if we would go in at a later time. If our body needs eight hours rest, going into work late means we could get the rest we need to be more productived at the work place. I found personally, that if work better in the mornings, so I would rather work early mornings and have the late afternoons